Simon Rumney

Killing Time for Mannie the Liar

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Produktbeschreibung

"This is exactly why they say, "Never piss off a writer!" Evil Robert steals his brother Simon's inheritance and the useless buffoon of a probate solicitor, Mannie the Liar, helps him get away with it. This is the story of the many life threatening adventures experienced by Simon while traveling the world waiting for the rudderless Romford law firm of Molly & Perk, to wake up to the fact they have an unaware narcissist running their probate department. Pulling the wool over the eyes of The Legal Ombudsman and The Solicitors Regulation Authority, Mannie the Liar compromises the firm's disputes solicitor, Enda Marmiduke and ineffectual Chairman, Monty Trenchfoot. This story, with all of its twists and turns, is so bizarre it's almost too far-fetched to believe it's a work of fiction. Of course, if it were real, all names would have been changed to protect the idiots.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: simon rumney
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9798230871149
• Artikelnr.: 73896283

Autorenporträt

Before going to school, I remember writing naive poetry for the spontaneous pleasure of forming words. Unfortunately for me, this instinctive need to write was crushed by my teachers’ seemingly obsessive need to humiliate children who struggled with "correctly" written words. At my tiny 1960’s English village school we adhered rigidly to a curriculum based on the three "Rs", and my inability to distinguish characters required for "reading", "writing" and "arithmetic" (a play on words that went completely over my head for most of my life) made my teachers very angry. Being a sensitive child, I deflected their years of calling me "lazy" and "stupid" by creating a protective alter-ego who played me like a character on a stage until leaving my secondary school, with no qualifications, at the age of fifteen. After working as a chef, airport loader, builders labourer, and any other job that allowed me to hide my "shameful weakness", I decided to harness my alter ego's deflecting humour and verbal skills to become a salesman. Many unfulfilled years spent selling for companies like Xerox brought me to a financially successful career within the computer communications industry. But the constant stress of pretending to be someone I was not, both professionally and socially, led to serious depression and my inevitable mental breakdown. During years of recovery, the origins of my alter ego had to be faced, fully explored and truly understood. This confronting healing process, coupled with a lifetime of tumultuous relationships and calamitous conflicts with extraordinary characters, is what I now call upon when writing my stories. From the age of five until my recovery I made it my mission to seek out artful ways of avoiding the written word, too afraid even to write a love or business letter. But after being diagnosed with dyslexia, I learned to use something as mundane as "spell check" to win a scholarship to The Film School in Seattle. Now unable to contain the urge to write, I have written four books, fifteen screenplays and I sense that there are many, many more characters and stories to come.